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[Federal Register: September 15, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 178)]
[Contents]
[Page III-VII]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr15se03-190]

                  CONTENTS

[[Page III]]

Agency for International Development
RULES
Emergency Wartime Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2003:
    Israel loan guarantees; standard terms and conditions, 53878-53880

Agriculture Department
See  Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
See  Food and Nutrition Service
See  Foreign Agricultural Service
See  Forest Service

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
RULES
Exportation and importation of animals and animal products:
    Pork and pork products imported from regions affected with swine
            vesicular disease; pork-filled pasta, 53873-53877
Plant-related quarantine, domestic:
    Asian longhorned beetle, 53873
PROPOSED RULES
Plant related quarantine; foreign:
    Eucalyptus logs, lumber and wood chips from South America, 
              53910-53915
NOTICES
Environmental statements; availability, etc.:
    Artificially dwarfed plants from China; approved growing media,
            53956-53957 [HTML] or [PDF]

Census Bureau
NOTICES
Surveys, determinations, etc.
    Annual trade survey, 53959-53960

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
See  Inspector General Office, Health and Human Services Department

Children and Families Administration
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and
          approvals, 53979-53980

Coast Guard
PROPOSED RULES
Ports and waterways safety:
    Limerick Generating Station and Schuylkill River, Montgomery
            County, PA; security zone, 53928-53930
    Oyster Creek Generation Station and Forked River, Ocean City, NJ;
            security zone, 53930-53932
    Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station, Susquehanna River, NY and PA;
            security zone, 53932-53935
    Salem and Hope Creek Generation Stations, Delaware River, Salem
            County, NJ; security zone, 53935-53937

Commerce Department
See  Census Bureau
See  International Trade Administration
See  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and
          approvals, 53957-53959

Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements
NOTICES
African Growth and Opportunity Act; determinations:
    Ghana; handloomed and handmade articles, 53967-53969

Defense Department
PROPOSED RULES
Acquisition regulations:
    Fish, shellfish, and seafood products, 53945-53946
    Government source inspection requirements; elimination, 53946-53947
NOTICES
Environmental statements; availability, etc.:
    Ground-Based Midcourse Defense Initial Defensive Operations
            Capability, 53969

Energy Department
See  Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
NOTICES
Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:
    National Energy Technology Laboratory--
        Microhole Technology Development, 53969-53970

Environmental Protection Agency
RULES
Air quality implementation plans; approval and promulgation; various
          States:
    Illinois, 53887-53891 [HTML] or [PDF]
    North Carolina, 53883-53887 [HTML] or [PDF]
    Texas, 53891 [HTML] or [PDF]
PROPOSED RULES
Air quality implementation plans; approval and promulgation; various
          States:
    Illinois, 53937-53939 [HTML] or [PDF]
    North Carolina, 53937 [HTML] or [PDF]
NOTICES
Environmental statements; availability, etc.:
    States and territories--
        Connecticut, 53965-53966 [HTML] or [PDF]
Meetings:
    Gulf of Mexico Program Management Committee, 53978 [HTML] or [PDF]

Executive Office of the President
See  Management and Budget Office
See  Presidential Documents

Farm Credit Administration
PROPOSED RULES
Farm credit system:
    Funding and fiscal affairs, loan policies and operations, and
            funding operations--
        Systemwide and consolidated bank debt obligations; investors
                and shareholders disclosure, 53915-53925

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Federal Aviation Administration
RULES
Air carrier certification and operations:
    Digital flight data recorder upgrade requirements; correction,
            53877
PROPOSED RULES
Class C airspace, 53925-53926
NOTICES
Meetings:
    RTCA, Inc., 54041-54042
Passenger facility charges; applications, etc.:
    San Francisco International Airport, CA, 54042
Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:
    Conducting component level tests to demonstrate compliance, 
              54042-54043

Federal Communications Commission
RULES
Common carrier services:
    Commercial mobile radio services--
        Applying TOCSIA provisions to CMRS carriers; forbearance,
                53891-53895
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and
          approvals, 53978

Federal Emergency Management Agency
NOTICES
Meetings:
    National Fire Academy Board of Visitors, 53989

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
NOTICES
Hydroelectric applications, 53976-53977
Practice and procedure:
    Off-the-record communications, 53977
Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:
    FERC online; electronic filing system upgrade, 53977-53978
Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:
    Dominion Cove Point LNG, LP, 53970-53971
    Eastern Shore Natural Gas Co., 53971
    Equitrans, L.P., 53971-53972
    Gulfstream Natural Gas System, L.L.C., 53972
    High Island Offshore System, L.L.C., 53972
    Iroquois Gas Transmission System, L.P., 53972-53973
    Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator, Inc., 53973
    Northern Border Pipeline Co., 53973
    Office of the People's Counsel of the District of Columbia et al.,
            53973-53974
    PG&E Gas Transmission, Northwest Corp., 53974
    Questar Pipeline Co., 53974
    Southern Natural Gas Co., 53975
    Tesoro Refining and Marketing Co. et al., 53975
    Texas Eastern Transmission, LP, 53975-53976
    Williston Basin Interstate Pipeline Co., 53976

Federal Reserve System
NOTICES
Banks and bank holding companies:
    Change in bank control, 53978-53979
    Formations, acquisitions, and mergers, 53979

Fish and Wildlife Service
PROPOSED RULES
Endangered and threatened species:
    Sea turtle conservation--
        Loggerhead sea turtle; 12-month finding petition to reclassify
                subpopulations, 53947-53955 [HTML] or [PDF]
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and
          approvals, 53992-53993
Endangered and threatened species:
    Incidental take permits--
        Gosnell Residential et al., 53994-53995 [HTML] or [PDF]
Endangered and threatened species permit applications, 
    53993-53994 [HTML] or [PDF]
Natural resource damage assessment plans; availability, etc.:
    Holston River/Saltville National Priority List Site, VA and TN,
            53995-53996

Food and Drug Administration
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and
          approvals, 53980-53981
Food additive petitions:
    Genencor Internation, Inc.; withdrawn, 53981
Meetings:
    Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee, 53981-53982
    Medical Devices Advisory Committee, 53982
    Peripheral and Central Nervous System Drugs Advisory Committee;
            amendment of notice, 53982-53983
Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:
    E2D Postapproval Saftey Data Management; Definitions and Standards
            for Expedited Reporting, 53983-53984
    Investigational New Drug Exemptions for Studies of Lawfully
            Marketed Drug or Biological Cancer Treatment Products,
            53984
    Pentetate calcium trisodium (Ca-DTPA) and pentetate zinc trisodium
            (Zn-DTPA); safe and effective for internal contamination
            with plutonium, americum, or cur, 53984-53989

Food and Nutrition Service
PROPOSED RULES
Child nutrition programs:
    Women, infants, and children; special supplemental nutrition
            program--
        Food package revisions, 53903-53910

Foreign Agricultural Service
NOTICES
Trade adjustment assistance; applications, petitions, etc.:
    United Fishermen of Alaska et al., 53957
    Wild Blueberry Commission of Maine, 53957

Forest Service
NOTICES
Environmental statements; notice of intent:
    Caribou County, ID; Smoky Canyon Mine and Caribou-Targhee National
            Forest, 53998-54000 [HTML] or [PDF]
Meetings:
    Resource Advisory Committees--
        Wrangell-Petersburg, 53957

General Services Administration
NOTICES
Acquisition regulations:
    Not Mission Capable Supply (OF 84); form cancellation, 53979

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Health and Human Services Department
See  Children and Families Administration
See  Food and Drug Administration
See  Inspector General Office, Health and Human Services Department

Homeland Security Department
See  Coast Guard
See  Federal Emergency Management Agency

Housing and Urban Development Department
PROPOSED RULES
Public and Indian housing:
    Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of
            1996; implementation; meeting, 53926
NOTICES
Low income housing:
    Housing assistance payments (Section 8)--
        Operating cost adjustment factors, 53989-53990
Mortgage and loan insurance programs:
    Credit Watch Termination Initiative; origination approval
            agreements; termination, 53990-53992

Inspector General Office, Health and Human Services Department
PROPOSED RULES
Medicare and Federal health care programs; fraud and abuse:
    Clarification of terms and application of program exclusion
            authority, 53939-53945

Interior Department
See  Fish and Wildlife Service
See  Land Management Bureau
See  National Park Service

Internal Revenue Service
PROPOSED RULES
Income taxes:
    Assumption of partner liabilities; cross-reference
        Correction, 54062
    Low-income housing tax credit; section 42 carryover and stacking
            rule amendments; cancelled hearing, 53926-53927
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and
          approvals, 54048-54053
Meetings:
    Taxpayer Advocacy Panels, 54053-54058

International Trade Administration
NOTICES
Antidumping:
    Freshwater crawfish tail meat from--
        China, 53960-53961
Countervailing duties:
    Magnesium and alloy Magnesium from--
        Canada, 53962-53963
    Stainless Steel Sheet and Strip in Coils from--
        France, 53963-53965
Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:
    University of--
        Chicago, 53961
        Wisconsin et al., 53961
    Villanova University, 53962

International Trade Commission
NOTICES
Import investigations:
    Ductile iron waterworks fittings from--
        China, 54010-54012

Labor Department
See  Occupational Safety and Health Administration
NOTICES
Privacy Act:
    Systems of Records, 54012-54015

Land Management Bureau
NOTICES
Closure of public lands:
    Idaho, 53996
    Utah, 53997
Coal leases, exploration licenses, etc.:
    Colorado, 53997
Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:
    Resource Advisory Committees--
        Nominations, 53998
    Steens Mountain Advisory Council, 53998
Environmental statements; notice of intent:
    Caribou County, ID; Smoky Canyon Mine and Caribou-Targhee National
            Forest, 53998-54000 [HTML] or [PDF]
    Northeast National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska Integrated Activity
            Plan, AK; extension, 54001 [HTML] or [PDF]
    North Valleys Water Projects, NV, 54000-54001 [HTML] or [PDF]
    Sloan Canyon National Conservation Area Resource Management Plan,
            NV, 54001-54002 [HTML] or [PDF]
Public administrative procedures:
    Conveyances, disclaimers, and correction documents--
        Recordable disclaimer of interest for lands; notice of
                applications, 54002-54003
Realty actions; sales, leases, etc.:
    Arizona, 54003
    Idaho, 54003-54004
    Nevada, 54004
Recreation management restrictions:
    Lake Havasu, the Parker Stip Recreation Area, and the Craggy Wash
            Area, Mohave and La Paz Counties, AZ and CA; supplementary
            rules, 54004-54007

Legal Services Corporation
NOTICES
Grant and cooperative agreement awards:
    Civil legal services to poor--
        Various States, 54015-54019

Management and Budget Office
NOTICES
Proposed bulletin on peer review and information quality, 54023-54029

Maritime Administration
NOTICES
Coastwise trade laws; administrative waivers:
    COOL CHANGE, 54043
    CRABBY BILL, 54043-54044
    EARN CHATHA, 54044
    JEFE, 54044-54045
    PATRICIA E, 54045
    S/VY NOT, 54045-54046
    STRIKER, 54046
    WANDERER, 54046

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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NOTICES
Inventions, Government-owned; availability for licensing, 54020-54021
Patent licenses; non-exclusive, exclusive, or partially exclusive:
    Carbon Therapeutics, Inc., 54021

National Archives and Records Administration
RULES
Public availability and use:
    NARA facilities; regulations modified, 53882-53883

National Credit Union Administration
NOTICES
Meetings; Sunshine Act, 54021

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
NOTICES
Motor vehicle safety standards; exemption petitions, etc.:
    Mitsubishi Motors North America, Inc., 54047

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
PROPOSED RULES
Endangered and threatened species:
    Sea turtle conservation--
        Loggerhead sea turtle; 12-month finding petition to reclassify
                subpopulations, 53947-53955 [HTML] or [PDF]
NOTICES
Environmental statements; availability, etc.:
    States and territories--
        Connecticut, 53965-53966 [HTML] or [PDF]
Meetings:
    North Pacific Fishery Management Council, 53966
    Pacific Fishery Management Council, 53966-53967
Permits:
    Marine mammals, 53967

National Park Service
NOTICES
Environmental statements; availability, etc.:
    Gauley River National Recreation Area, WV, 54007-54008 [HTML] or [PDF]
    Great Falls Historic District, NJ; public scoping meeting, 
	54008 [HTML] or [PDF]
Meetings:
    Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historic Park Advisory
            Committee, 54009
    Gettysburg National Military Park Advisory Commission, 54009
National Register of Historic Places:
    Pending nominations, 54009-54010

National Science Foundation
NOTICES
Meetings:
    Engineering Advisory Committee, 54021-54022
    Polar Programs Advisory Committee, 54022

Nuclear Regulatory Commission
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and
          approvals, 54022
Meetings:
    Reactor Safeguards Advisory Committee, 54023
Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:
    Testmaster Inspection Co., 54022-54023

Occupational Safety and Health Administration
PROPOSED RULES
Safety and health standards:
    Cranes and derricks, 53927-53928

Office of Management and Budget
See  Management and Budget Office

Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
RULES
Single-employer plans:
    Allocation of assets--
        Interest assumptions for valuing and paying benefits, 
                  53880-53882
NOTICES
Single-employer plans:
    Allocation of assets--
        Interest assumptions for valuing and paying benefits, 
                  54029-54030

Personnel Management Office
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and
          approvals, 54030-54031
Meetings:
    Federal Prevailing Rate Advisory Committee, 54031-54032

Presidential Documents
ADMINISTRATIVE ORDERS
Trafficking in persons; determination under the Trafficking Victims
          Protection Act of 2000 (Presidential Determination No. 
            2003-35 of September 9, 2003), 53871

Public Debt Bureau
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and
          approvals, 54058-54061

Research and Special Programs Administration
RULES
Pipeline safety:
    Gas pipeline safety standards; regulatory review, 53895-53902

Securities and Exchange Commission
NOTICES
Self-regulatory organizations; proposed rule changes:
    Chicago Stock Exchange, Inc., 54032-54034
    New York Stock Exchange, Inc., 54034
    Philadelphia Stock Exchange, Inc., 54034-54037

Social Security Administration
NOTICES
Privacy Act:
    System of records, 54037-54041

State Department
PROPOSED RULES
Intercountry Adoption Act of 2000:
    Hague Convention; agency accreditation and person approval, 
              54063-54119
    Hague Convention; record preservation, 54118-54122

[[Page VII]]

Surface Transportation Board
NOTICES
Railroad operation, acquisition, construction, etc.:
    Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railway Co., 54047-54048

Textile Agreements Implementation Committee
See  Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements

Transportation Department
See  Federal Aviation Administration
See  Maritime Administration
See  National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
See  Research and Special Programs Administration
See  Surface Transportation Board

Treasury Department
See  Internal Revenue Service
See  Public Debt Bureau

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State Department, 54063-54122

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